Elon pushed the head of the FAA out, replaced him with nobody
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The Federal Aviation Administration is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out.
Michael Whitaker stepped down as FAA administrator on January 20th, the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, after clashing with Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX is regulated by the agency. Musk publicly called on Whitaker to resign after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes. And now the power vacuum at the agency is coming into sharp focus after an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet Wednesday evening in Washington, DC, killing everyone on board.
At a press conference Thursday with rescue officials, newly confirmed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ignored reporters’ questions about whether the FAA had an acting director in place to help manage the crisis.
But of course when you’re a racist on Trump’s level every bad thing has one possible cause:
President Donald Trump on Thursday — without evidence — blamed Democrats and diversity, equity and inclusion practices for the plane crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that he deemed was a “tragedy of terrible proportions.”
In response, Trump said he was tapping Chris Rocheleau, a top executive for an aviation business association, to be acting FAA administrator.
“As one nation, we grieve for every precious soul that has been taken from us so suddenly,” Trump said from the White House briefing room after requesting a moment of silence. “Really, we are in mourning. This has really shaken a lot of people.”
But what began as a scripted speech quickly turned political and spiraled into blame casting, as Trump placed the onus of the catastrophe on the helicopter crew and Democrats and suggested that it was the result of diversity hiring.
It would presumably be woke critical race theory to suggest that an acting head of the FAA should have been appointed before this.